Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Also, no code of ethics is an adequate substitute for religion. For if it be manmade, it can be remade by other men, and its true name is mores, which are transient. And even if, like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...
...their houses in order, or people might one day ask the Government to do it for them. Obviously government interference, "a last resort," would be a remedy worse than the evil. But the press's own record in self-regulation had not been good. The Production Code had merely made the movies inoffensive (in one sense); the radio was regulated by the unwritten code of advertisers "who will not risk making a single enemy. . . ." The American Society of Newspaper Editors had a fine code of ethics, but had never used...
...three decades ago, Hollywood, suffering economically from boycotts raised against certain of its products by religious, business, and other organized groups, reached down into its grab-bag and came up with Czar of all the movies Will Hays and his code of ethics. Purely a device for self-protection, the Hays Office eliminated "offensive matter" before a film was released, established the five-second sanitary kiss and Sunday school dialogue, and--eliminated harmful boycotts...
...masterpiece of yellow journalism and a breach of every code of decency I know...
Colonel Masao Kusunose, 58, was about to be tried by the Allies. On New Britain, in 1942, he had authorized the bayoneting of 140 Australian prisoners. But the Colonel, according to his peculiar code, was a man of honor; for him there was only one possible course: suicide. He could not commit hara-kiri because his samurai saber had been confiscated by the enemy. Death by drowning or jumping in front of a train would be improper. He decided to end his life by starvation and exposure (the weather was sub-zero...